After selecting a portion of a document in word, and you right click on it,
you should have the option to invert selection.


This is useful for example when you want to change the format of the whole
document except for the selected part.

p.s. Yes , I know that i can hold the CTRL key to selectively "select" text

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It would be very easy to write a macro that does this... *if* Word VBA would
have support for multiple selections :-(

The macro below might do the trick (not sure if it works well on long docs,
or even if it works at all in all language versions.
It needed another ugly hack because there's also no VBA support for the new
Find dialog (with "Select all instances in: ...").

Selection.Font.Outline = True
Selection.Collapse (wdCollapseStart)
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Font.Outline = False
SendKeys "{TAB}{+}{DOWN}{DOWN}{HOME}~~"
With Dialogs(wdDialogEditFind)
.Display 1
End With
ActiveDocument.Content.Font.Outline = False

Regards,
Klaus

"vmorale4" wrote:

After selecting a portion of a document in word, and you right click on it,
you should have the option to invert selection.


This is useful for example when you want to change the format of the whole
document except for the selected part.

p.s. Yes , I know that i can hold the CTRL key to selectively "select" text

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